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‘Persia – especially Seistan’ [448r] (894/949)
The record is made up of 1 file (475 folios). It was created in 7 Nov 1901-23 Aug 1905. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Quetta ‘f reached - ^ —
a direct trade with the Port S 10WeVer latel y beeQ carrying on
The tea consumption figures given me here are as follows
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
a box; Indian tolOO fbs 0 Costs 2 f t t<!n lbS ‘ eacb ’ P rice at from 5 to 6
, .. . , . bs ' 0osts 2 t0Dl ans per maund Tabreez.
should liL to call vour g aH ntL h to a^hexT 6 n0tice abd whi c h I
of Indian tea in these parts of Perl it ? w “ S T e measure the failur <>
for Indian merchants in fact all m fl rph^ I V SO f Sh T^ ^ necessit ^ that ex ^
Laving trustworthy agents, ^
quichlturns! S1 Sg'adll a letftL\lla W I b f eir Wa3 ' ,t ° 1 1”' 8 P ro i lts an ' 1
were being received, owin" to their o- 0 od ouaiitv 111 ^ ^ V . our m W llc .^ Indian teas
*?** h* i"~* a ssisjsiss? a
and sweepings mostly, stuff that cost them landed in Kerman 4 te a »!’“ rt
pound. This they palmed off on the PersTme as Indianr at Is anna m 1
rupee more. It is small wonder that Indian tea fell into disrenute and that
Persians showed a preference for clean Lamsar in sealed box£?
Enclosure A will give you the names of the chief local traders
,, , Iist of , Calc, r t(a fl rms interested in Tea has been given to the heads of
the Mohammedan and Parsee merchants both in English and in Persian.
, dt , w ! 11 be . interesting ^ to note that Khan Bahadur who is at present
attached to this Mission, is on the completion of our tour to be appointed
British
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
here and I have great hopes that he will be able to do
a good deal towards developing trade with India. He is an Indian himself
and knowing that his superior, Major Sykes, Consul at Kerman, is very keenly
interested in the matter of trade development, he will naturally do more than
if he were a Persian or if he had not personal interests to serve.
I fancy Khan Bahadur will be here in May sometime and it would be good
policy to open up correspondence with him. He .understands Urdu and Persian
well and also a little English.
I have presented the Major of Bam and the heads of the Parsee and
Mohammedan merchants with a canister of tea each and done my best to
interest them in matters Indian.
# —A good way of pushing and advertising Indian tea would be for the
Indian Tea Cess Committee to ask the Government of India to include in
its toshakhana a certain number of J lb. and J lb. chests of good Savoury
Indian teas, small silver tea pots fitted with moveable silver infusers so as to
reduce the chances of over infusion if the pot were put on the Samovar to
keep warm. Every Consulate, Vice Consulate, and Political or Consular
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
has a Government toshakhana so that our request could easily be complied
with by Government instructions how to make tea with best results, written
in Persian or better still engraved on the tea pots would also be a great help.
Enclosure A.
Par sees.
Arab Ardeshir, Agent of Arab Jamshird of Tehran.
Beharam Biustum—Yezdi.
Behram Mahrab.
Khudarahim Jehanbaksh.
Mohammedans.
Saiid Abbas, Yezdi.
Aga Mohammed Hussain, Yezdi.
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This part contains papers mostly relating to British interests in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
It includes a copy of the Board of Trade Commercial Intelligence Committee ‘Report received from Mr. H. W. Maclean, the Special Commissioner appointed by the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade, on the conditions and prospects of British trade in Persia.’
A handwritten note at the front of the file, on folio 5, states ‘Spare copy of notes & correspondence of the “Helmand Control” file (with maps)’. Folio 110 consists of handwritten notes, including one dated 27 April 1904, which states ‘The secret Helmand papers have been printed up, and a set, with necessary maps, is submitted for H.E. the Viceroy to take to England.’ Much of the file concerns the question of controlling the water of the Helmand river and irrigating its whole delta, and the work of the Seistan Arbitration Commission to arbitrate between Persia and Afghanistan on the question of rights to the water of the Helmand in Seistan.
The file also includes reports by W A Johns on reconnaissances of potential railway routes made while he was attached to the Seistan Arbitration Commission, and other papers relating to railways and roads in Persia.
In addition, the file includes copies of the following Government of India Foreign Department Proceedings, which reproduce received Foreign Department correspondence on the following subjects: ‘Selection of a British naval base in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .’, November 1901, Nos. 74-83; ‘Visit of His Excellency the Viceroy to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. during November-December 1903.’, February 1904, Nos. 33-127; ‘Establishment of telegraphic communication with Henjam. Question of the selection of a naval base in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Aggressive action of the Persians at Tamb and Abu Musa; their claim to the Islands.’, June 1904, Nos. 300-388; ‘Reports of the Commercial Mission to Persia.’, June 1905, Nos. 45-111; ‘Question of retaining flagstaffs erected in the neighbourhood of the Musandim Promontory’, August 1905, Nos. 288-307.’
The file also includes: brief handwritten notes written by Curzon on headed paper belonging to the Viceregal Lodge, Simla, relating to Seistan and to Lord Kitchener’s planned reforms for the reorganisation and redistribution of the Indian Army; and a printed copy of the report ‘A Note by Major H.L. [Herbert Lionel] Showers, C.I.E., on the present state of affairs in Kelat and a review of the system of Administration now being pursued.’
The file includes four maps: ‘Map of the Tail waters of Helmand River’ (13 July 1903), f 122; ‘Plan Shewing Proposed Routes for a Railway from Nushki to Afghan Frontier near Robat’ (10 April 1903), f 139; ‘Extract from Admiralty Chart No. 753. (Entrance to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ).’ (October 1901), f 219; and ‘Sketch of route Ram Hormuz to Fellahieh.’ (April 1904), f 230.
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The papers are arranged in no apparent order, apart from the Government of India Foreign Department Proceedings, folios 231 to 474, which are arranged in chronological order.
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- ‘Persia – especially Seistan’
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- front, 2r:194v, 195v:196r, 197v:199v, 200v, 201v, 203r:272r, 273v:275v, 277r:405v, 408r:408v, 409v, 411r:413v, 414v:419v, 420v:424v, 425v:432v, 433v:435v, 436v, 437v:443v, 444v:471v, 473r:475v
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